世纪

• The story goes back to the middle of the nineteenth century .
  故事追溯到19世纪中叶。
• The country was a great naval power in past centuries .
  该国在前几个世纪是海上强国。
• Her life spanned almost the whole of the 19th century .
  她的一生几乎跨越了整个19世纪。
• The rockefeller family became rich in 1880's .
  洛克菲勒一家在十九世纪八十年代就已致富。
• When i aroused, it was as after centuries of time .
  待我苏醒过来，好似已经过了几个世纪。
• This may have occurred recently or centuries ago .
  这可能发生在最近，或者是在几世纪以前。
• During the twelfth century there is little to report .
  关于12世纪的情况，我们可谈的很少。
• The eighteenth-century men were ultimately vindicated .
  十八世纪的人们最后还是得到了谅解。
• The place exhaled the soft airs of centuries of youth .
  这地方散发出几个世纪青春的柔和气息。
• Gunpowder was used in china as far back as the 11th century .
  远在公元11世纪，中国已使用火药。